Another challenge ignored this campaign: Cancer

12:49 PM,
Nov. 5, 2012

Written by

GARY MERVIS
Guest Essayist

We have now had four and a half hours of Presidential debates, and during those 270 minutes, not once did either candidate make mention of cancer and what they would do, as the leader of this country, to find the answers to this horrible disease that is taking the lives of 11,000 Americans every week.

These 11,000 Americans are our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and as it were in my case, our children. Deaths in America from cancer are the equivalent of one of the Twin Towers falling every single day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. In America today, if you are 85 years of age or younger, ...